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It will pick up with the Laconian Empire working to cement its control over the Solar System, as everyone else contends with the forces that decimated the last galactic empire.
From The Verge • Jan. 5, 2018
Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gods! to think that they have ventured with Laconian men to deal, Men of just the faith and honour that a ravening wolf might feel!
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
Resistance of other Laconian towns to the Dorians.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
In some Laconian inscriptions, belonging to the Roman time, many names of nomophylaces, buagi, and σύσσιτοι of the magistrates are recorded; the meaning of the latter distinction is obscure.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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